Category: Call for Submissions

Deadline: October 31, 2021

Canadian-American Slavic Studies is planning a special issue on Pussy Riot to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the Punk Prayer. 
We encourage submissions from scholars of any relevant discipline. Articles should ideally be between 7000 and 10,000 words.  The deadline is Halloween (October 31) 2021, with the issue coming out in 2022 
Please contact guest editor Eliot Borenstein (eb7@nyu.edu) or editor Katherine  Reischl kreischl@princeton.edu if you have any questions. 
Submissions (in Microsoft Word or a compatible format) can also be sent to either one of these email addresses.

Deadline: April 12, 2021

Student Paper Competition: Virtual Edition

Every year, the Russian Studies department at Macalester College organizes a research paper competition for students at local institutions. This year, the competition will be in a virtual format and is open to undergrads at all U.S. colleges and universities. Cash prizes awarded! Your project should be based on a term paper (or part of a senior thesis) on any topic relevant to Russia, Eastern/Central Europe, or Central Asia written in Spring 2020, Fall 2020, or work-in-progress from Spring 2021.

Deadline: May 31, 2021

Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies CALL FOR PAPERS

Past and Present Intersections among Italian, Russian, Soviet and Post-Scialist Cinemas and Media

The purpose of this themed issue of the Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies (JICMS) is to explore the encounter between artistic geographies and academic geometries delineated by the role that Italian cinema plays and has played in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Russia and various post-Soviet states (like the Central Asia countries, the Baltic states, the Caucasus, etc.) and East Germany, during and after the Soviet period, as well as in cooperation opportunities between the film industries of these countries.

Deadline: March 31, 2021

Co-editors of the edited volume “Russian Translation in the Global Context” are calling for submissions of up to 8,000 words on one of the following topics:

(a) the history of literary translation from Russian into another language (which may include the biography of one or more translators, or focus on translations of a single author’s work) – e.g. a history of Gogol’s translation into Portuguese;

(b) the reception of Russian literature in translation (over any time period between approx. 1900 and the present day) in a specific culture, ethnicity, nation, or region. (For this topic, we are particularly interested in scholarship on the non-Anglophone, non-Western reception of Russian literature, although all proposals will be considered). For example: Responses to “Mertvye dushi” in Indonesian literature.

Deadline: April 15, 2021

CFP: Edited volume on “Contemporary Russian Documentary”

Submissions are being solicited for a new edited volume, tentatively titled Contemporary Russian Documentary, which will hopefully open up a scholarly conversation on this incredibly rich and diverse documentary landscape. We define ‘contemporary’ in a broad way as the last thirty years during which documentary in Russia has been free from state monopoly. We deliberately avoid referring to this new cinema as “post-Soviet” or “the cinema of Putin’s Russia,” as these categorizations would inevitably restrict both the texts under consideration and the methodological approach. We adopt a similarly liberal and inclusive approach to what might be considered “Russian” documentary: we hope to solicit essays on a range of Russophone documentaries including films made by Russian directors, those trained in Russia, or trained elsewhere but drawn to making films in and about Russia.

Deadline: April 5, 2021

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue of AvtobiografiЯ 2022- Queer Life-Writing in Russia and Beyond
Guest edited by Connor Doak (Bristol)

This special issue of AvtobiografiЯ investigates the poetics of queer life-writing in Russian. What does a queer text in Russian look like? How do queer writers make use of, appropriate, or transform existing forms and genres? How does the queer Russian text evolve over time? How has the queer Russian text developed alongside, and responded to, queer texts that have come into Russia from other cultures? How has the evolution of literary forms and genres in Russian culture, as well as the evolution of information technologies, shaped the poetics of queer life-writing? Note that we have nearly reached our full complement of contributors, but we are seeking one or two further articles, particularly on bisexual and lesbian life-writing.

Deadline: May 1, 2021

Special Issue “Folklore and Protest”: Call for Papers

Folklorica, the peer-reviewed Journal of the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association, is accepting submissions for a thematic issue “Folklore and Protest.”

Whether expressing disapproval or advocating for change, protests are integral parts of contemporary political processes. They can vary in size, form, and scope, range from peaceful to violent, and represent a number of positions on various political spectrums. Political protest has become a critical public manifestation of discontent in Eastern Europe and Eurasia today. Among the most recent examples are the abortion protests in Poland, the Armenian demonstrations over Nagorno-Karabakh, marches objecting to Alexei Navalny’s detention in Russia, and the ongoing unrest in Belarus opposing the Lukashenko regime.